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Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Hunstanworth: the Thankful Village (NY950490)

The village of Hunstanworth, a little to the SW of Blanchland
overlooking the valley of the River Derwent, holds a unique status among all
the settlements of County Durham. It is the county’s only ‘Thankful Village’ –
being the only community that did not lose a single serviceman during World War
I.

There are only 50-odd Thankful Villages in the whole of
Britain, which, when you consider how many such settlements there are across
the nation, is a very small total indeed. Hunstanworth only sent five men to
war during 1914-18, of which four of them, the Jamesons, were brothers. And
they all made it back safely to their families.

In the village’s church of St.James’ can be found a carved
alabaster memorial panel commemorating this blessed event, inscribed simply
thus:

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